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American Women's Dime Novel Project

According to the 1873 American Booksellers' Guide, Americans wanted to buy and read cheap books.

It said: "The tendency of prices in all departments has been downward during the past two years, and the necessity of consulting the popular demand was never more apparent than at the present time."

Not much change, then.

The quote features on the website devoted to the American Women's Dime Novel Project which can be usefully read by modern writers for inspiration, historical research or simply for idea generation.

Included are articles on:

Women's Dime Novels and Cheap Fiction
The Growth in Reading in the Nineteenth Century
The Fiction Boom of the Antebellum Period
Dime Novels Bring the Fiction Boom to the Working Class
Dime Novels for Women
Who Read the Woman's Dime Novel?
Shaping a New Genre: Women's Sensational Romantic Fiction
The Middle-Class Reacts to the New "Degraded" Literature

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